Vince Lombardi Quotes
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A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.
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The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.
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If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.
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Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
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There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.
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At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.
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Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.
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I've never been with a losing team in my life, and I don't think I'll start now.
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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
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Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?
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Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while... you don't do things right once in a while... you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.
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The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
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We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
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A game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.
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Why did I choose Washington among offers from other cities? Because it is the capital of the world.
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The will to win is the only thing.
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If you can bite hard you can growl just as hard.
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Leadership rests not only upon ability but upon commitment and upon loyalty and upon pride and upon followers...Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all the needed talents to go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.